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  1. The Gestational Diabetes Fear For Moms

    by Pieter De Wet - 2007-01-21
    Gestational diabetes is a type of diabetes that develops in pregnant women in 2-3% of pregnancies. For whatever reason, the blood sugar levels become abnormal during pregnancy due to a mild or sometim...

  2. The Diabetes Complications That Attack The Little Arteries.

    by Pieter De Wet - 2007-01-20
    Most people that think of diabetes complications have strokes and heart attacks in mind. Do you know that there are multiple other diabetes complications out there that only doctors know about? Let's ...

  3. Diabetes Complications, The Silent Killer.

    by Pieter De Wet - 2007-01-20
    The complications from diabetes can have devastating effects on your health, if proper care of ones health is not maintained.Heart DiseaseDiabetes is well known for being the cause of heart related pr...

  4. Diabetes Mellitus: How Do I Get It?

    by Pieter De Wet - 2007-01-20
    Diabetes Mellitus is a group of chronic disorders that are caused by a minor or total insulin deficiency.Although there are genetic factors to it, developing the disease also depends greatly on enviro...

  5. Diabetes And Genetics. Do We Have An Answer For It?

    by Pieter De Wet - 2007-01-19
    Although many diagnosed with diabetes have the disease somewhere in their family medical history, diabetes is not a disease that is inherited in any simple pattern.First of all, Type 1 and Type 2 diab...

  6. Diabetes And Obesity. Is There A Link?

    by Pieter De Wet - 2006-12-23
    Over half the population of the United States of America is obese or suffers from the effects of being overweight. Without surprise, among this cross section of the populace there are greater instance...

  7. Diabetes Cure- A Dream Or A Reality?

    by Pieter De Wet - 2006-12-22
    As the number of diabetes cases steadily grows, those diagnosed and involved in the care of diabetes patients have elected to focus on three options: prevent, cure and provide better care for those af...

  8. In Which Group Of Diabetes Are You Falling?

    by Pieter De Wet - 2006-12-22
    The two main categories of diabetes are referred to as primary and secondary diabetes.Primary or Idiopathic DiabetesIdiopathic diabetes Type 1, also referred to as IDDM or juvenile onset diabetes, is ...